California · Private foundation
Leestma Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $700k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Leestma Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $690k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $554k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $563k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $550k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $396k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $468k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $430k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $426k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canal Alliance | $390,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Center for Domestic Peace | $340,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Jubilee Ministries Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $210,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St James Cathedral Counseling Ctr | $175,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Action Marin | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Deborah's Place | $130,000 | 9 | 0% |
| 10000 Degrees | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($967k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leestma Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Chicago Community Trust · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
About Leestma Family Foundation
- How much does Leestma Family Foundation give?
- Leestma Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $700,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leestma Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (19%), Education (12%).
- Who are Leestma Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Canal Alliance ($390k), Center for Domestic Peace ($341k), Jubilee Ministries Inc ($215k).
- Does Leestma Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leestma Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leestma Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Bothin Foundation.
- Where is Leestma Family Foundation based?
- Leestma Family Foundation is based in CA.
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